Marble Faun (before 1922)

This marble statue is a copy of a Roman original, standing at 36” high.

Based on a Roman original in the Naples Museum, this little garden statue is located in the Annual Garden. The sharply pointed ears, animal skin about its neck, wine sack resting on the knee, and distinctly jovial demeanor suggest a mythological reveler, which is what the figure does in fact represent. In an act of vandalism in 1958, the head and left arm were knocked off. Only the head has been found and reset. What remains of the arm is a mutilated stump.

From A Guide to Art at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, Robert Allerton Park, and Chicago by Muriel Scheinman. Copyright 1995 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Used with permission from the University of Illinois Press.